AP is reporting that NBCUniversal International Studios president Michael Edelstein confirmed that a Downton Abbey movie has been in active development for a 2018 start date that will see the return of at least twenty actors from the series. “There’s a movie in the works.
Executive produced by Gareth Neame, Julian Fellowes, Liz Trubridge, and Nigel Marchant, Downton Abbey was created and written by Oscar-winner Fellowes (Gosford Park).
The series followed the lives and intrigues of the aristocratic Crawley family and their domestic servants in the fictional Yorkshire country estate of Downton Abbey between 1912 and 1926.
Rebecca Eaton serve as Executive Producer for Masterpiece, which is The series was presented in America on PBS’ Masterpiece by WGBH Boston.